Examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction.Intersecting Diasporas examines literary expressions of allyship between Italian America and other diasporic communities in modern and contemporary US fiction. Rewriting the AngloAmerican genre of the Italian novel authors like James Baldwin Bernard Malamud Carolina De Robertis and Changrae Lee have disrupted misconceptions of Italian and Italian American identity while confronting Italians own complicity with white racism. Likewise Italian American authors from John Fante to Tina De Rosa have written in solidarity with Black Chicanx Filipinx Jewish Romani and Irish diasporic communities on US shores unsettling stereotypes and dissecting Italian Americas history of flawed allyship across diasporas.